Here is what I posted at the site.......
I was also raised as a Baptist in the South in the 60s and 70s. I would say that, as there were pretty much no Mormons and darn few Catholics in the area, we almost never thought about them at all. I was taught that they had different beliefs from ourselves, as did every other Protestant denomination. Though some of the things I believed at the time about Mormons and Catholics were incorrect (for instance Papal infalliblity) the same can be said about my beliefs of other denominations as well. And for that matter, I don’t know all there is to know about Baptists......
The first real experience I had with anti-Catholicism came when I moved to New York. I can say the same for antiSemitism. My first experience of anti-Mormon feelings came when I moved to California.
That's something a lot of liberals and others don't seem to understand. It's usually people who live with and know a certain group that hate them the most, not those who are largely ignorant of said group. For example, the media always portrays rural folks as the most racist. In my experience, though, I found the most racist whites to be those that lived in cities and other areas with high amounts of blacks.